My villain wants to save himself, but the yandere heroine disagrees

The two men then came to Odysseus.

"You're here..." Odysseus looked at Elsa and Orson, and although he had just experienced some unpleasant things, he still forced a smile.

"Well, Father, regarding the subsequent investigation, my idea is somewhat similar to that of Duke Henry. We'd better thoroughly investigate the underground forces buried in the imperial city."

"Well, that's a feasible approach." Odysseus nodded. There was absolutely no problem with that.

"However, we still need to discuss how to investigate and where to start." After saying this, Odysseus looked at Orson who was standing beside him. "Has Master Orson also joined the investigation team?"

"Well, it was Her Royal Highness the Princess who invited me."

"So, Mr. Orson, how much do you know about the underground forces in Saint Laurent City?"

"Have heard a little bit."

"So, in your opinion, is it possible that one of those underground forces planned the assassination of Duke Francois?"

"Probably not." Orson said, shaking his head. "If they can successfully assassinate the Duke, it proves that they can also pose a threat to the safety of the royal family. I think that with your wisdom, Your Majesty will not allow such an uncontrolled underground force to exist in Saint Laurent City."

"As expected of you, Prince Orson. You are very smart." Odysseus couldn't help but praise him.

From the outset, it was unlikely that this incident was planned by local underground forces in Saint Laurent City.

It is very likely that a master from outside the area sneaked into the city of Saint Laurent and assassinated François.

……

The city of Romulus.

Duke's residence.

A man in black placed a wooden box on Giovanni's desk. Giovanni took the box, opened it and took a look.

"White irises on a blue background, looks like a member of the Toulouse family." Giovanni said with satisfaction. "Francois?"

The man in black nodded calmly.

"At that time, his guards were the weakest and I was the most confident, so..."

"I know." Giovanni nodded. "Otherwise, what you want to take is William's head, right?"

The man in black nodded again.

"Did you take his heart?" Giovanni asked, stroking the coat of arms of the Toulouse family with his fingers.

"Yeah, but... not good enough."

"I know, there's nothing I can do, but this is the Duke's heart after all." Giovanni smiled.

"Okay, you can take a break now. I'll assign you a task later."

"I see."

The man in black said this, walked to the corner, and then disappeared into the shadows.

"Alas, if you raise a dog, it will only continue to recognize you as its master if you keep feeding it." Giovanni sighed.

Chapter 76: Exposed

"Mr. Zenit, recently... the situation on the front line has been getting worse." In the basement, Donnie looked at the blond man in front of him with a look full of worry.

"Are all the cities north of Florence about to fall?" Zenit looked at the battle report in his hand and sighed.

"Master Donnie, I'm not saying this, but judging from the current situation, there is no possibility of us turning the tables."

"So that's the only way, right?" Donnie said hesitantly.

"Well, that's the only solution for now."

"..." Tang Ni was silent for a long time, and finally nodded.

"I know. I'll do it."

"Well, Master Donnie, those who want to achieve great things must know how to give up. Only when you know that giving up something can allow you to gain something better, can you succeed."

Donnie said nothing, turned around and left silently.

Zenit looked at Donny's back and gave a meaningful smile.

A few minutes later, the door of the room rang again. Zenit thought that Donny had forgotten something, and just as he walked to the door, the door panel was shaken open.

The entire basement was instantly filled with dust, obscuring the view.

Zenit himself was hit directly in the chest by the flying door panel, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

"Tsk..." At this moment, he didn't care about the pain in his body and raised his head to look forward.

A dark shadow was standing at the door, wrapped in black cloth, with only a pair of eyes showing.

And those bright red eyes staring at him looked at him as if he were a dead person.

As expected, I was discovered after all?

Zenit managed to support himself from the wall.

"Sir, there is no grudge between us, why do you treat me like this?"

"You... lied to Tony. The Duke wants me to kill you." He uttered the words hoarsely. The voice did not sound like it could be made by a human.

"Haha, we've been discovered after all." Zenit actually smiled when he heard that.

"In that case, you can take my life. I'm here anyway and I can't escape, right?"

"..." After hearing what Zenit said, the other party didn't waste any more words and rushed forward directly...

At this moment, Tony had just got on the carriage to go home.

After returning home, Donny took out the poison that Zenit gave him.

He went to the kitchen, poured a cup of coffee into the cup, and then just looked at his face reflected in the cup.

.

At this moment, Donny, reflected in the cup, had a nervous look on his face, with beads of sweat on his forehead, and his hand holding the poison bottle was trembling slightly.

"No, all of this is necessary. My father did something so wrong, and I am ridding the people of this evil."

Donnie's body was shaking. He whispered to himself to cheer himself up. When he finished speaking, all the poison in his hand had spilled into the coffee.

Fortunately, the dosage of the poison itself was not large. After sniffing it and making sure that the smell of the poison could not be detected, Donny brought the coffee to Giovanni's office.

"Father, you must be tired. This is the coffee I just poured for you downstairs." Donny suppressed his inner fear, made himself look as normal as possible, and said with a smile.

It was the best he could do to speak without his voice trembling.

"I understand." Giovanni said, took the coffee, blew it on his lips, and pretended to drink it.

Donny watched Giovanni's every move and almost popped his eyes out.

At this moment, Giovanni seemed to suddenly remember something and put down the coffee.

"By the way, Donny, did you put sugar in this cup of coffee?"

"Ah...I think there should be some."

"I don't smell it. Bring it down and give me some more."

"Well, how about you take a sip first and see if it tastes good?" Donnie said softly.

"..." Giovanni was silent. He raised his head and stared at Donny.

That look was as if he could see right through what Donnie was thinking.

"Donny, tell me the truth." After looking at each other for a while, Giovanni spoke.

"What?" Donnie asked confused.

"Did you really want me to drink this cup of coffee just now?"

"Father, what do you mean by this?" Donny was completely panicked. Could it be that Giovanni saw something from his actions?

"Did you poison the coffee?!" At this time, Giovanni slammed the table and stood up.

"Father...Father, why...why are you saying that?" Donnie was so frightened that he took two steps back, leaned against the door, and stared at Giovanni in panic.

"Don't you know why I say that?!" Giovanni walked over the desk and took the cup of coffee.

"If this cup of coffee is not poisonous, come on, drink it!" He handed the coffee directly to Donnie.

There was no way that Donny could hold the cup of coffee, and the quilt fell directly to the ground, turning into crumbs.

"What? You can't even hold a cup of coffee? And you still want to take my place?"

The scene before him was something Zenit had never told Donny about, but it was indeed the situation Donny had faced the most.

Once my father gets angry, I feel like a child who can't resist him, even though I am an adult now and have the strength to resist my father.

"I'm... I'm sorry, Father. I let you down..." Donnie's body was shaking. He lowered his head and kept apologizing.

"I...I didn't mean it. Someone just told me so, so I..."

"Is that why? You think everything you did was right?" Giovanni stared at Donny with wide eyes, stretched out his hand and slapped him directly.

The crisp sound echoed in the study.

"I thought you were getting better, but you're still like this. You're still a child in front of me, a useless piece of shit, no matter how I teach you!" Giovanni went back to his desk angrily.

"I know where you have been running these days. I have already sent people to get rid of the man who helped you behind your back. From now on, you can't trust anyone." Giovanni said with his hands behind his back.

Donnie was in shock at this time.

It turns out that Giovanni already knew about Mr. Zenit's affairs.

"I can tolerate your being bewildered for a while, but you have to remember that we are in the same boat. Even if I die, you will still not have a good ending. Do you think that the royal family will not bring up the past accounts of what you did for me after I die?"

"In this era, only fists are the hard truth." Giovanni said this as a warning to his children.

"If there is a next time, I will not care about the blood relationship between you and me."

"Go away." Giovanni said this last sentence, and then Donny fled from the study.

Chapter 77: It’s actually him?

Donnie returned to his room in a daze.

From childhood to adulthood, he has always lived under the shadow of Giovanni. He has to do whatever Giovanni asks him to do, otherwise he will be beaten and scolded.

If you listen to your father, you will be rewarded and become the most dazzling person among your peers. But if you don’t listen to your father, you will get nothing and lose a lot instead.

These are the values ​​he has established since childhood.

The first collapse of his values ​​occurred when he followed his father's orders and tried to sow discord between Litt and Orson. At that time, he thought that the cleverness he learned from his father could successfully alienate the two brothers, but in the end he was outmaneuvered by Orson and lost the opportunity to continue studying at the Imperial Academy.

But that didn't matter. After coming back, Giovanni arranged for Donny to enter the best university in the Dukedom of Napoli to continue his studies. When he was in the Imperial Academy, his little followers who attended lunch at noon also transferred there. He was still the arrogant young man he used to be.

Until the Dukedom of Antica joined forces with the royal family to attack his own family, this trust in his father was broken again.

Even a man like him knew that the Duchy of Naples had no chance of defeating the combined forces of the royal family and Antica, and that his father had not been able to turn the tide of the war during this period.

If I believe my father again, my fate will obviously be to be sanctioned by the coalition forces together with him, and I may not even be able to save my life.

In order to maintain his current life, Donny had to find another way out. He chose to listen to Zenit's method and break off relations with his father.

However, it now seems that his every move is still under his father's nose, and what he thought was a conspiracy was actually already under Giovanni's nose.

He sat on his sofa, resting his head on his hands.

What just happened was too much information.

First of all, Giovanni had discovered what was going on between him and Zenit. Maybe Giovanni had already noticed it when he regarded Zenit as his confidant at the beginning. Everything that followed was to test Donny to see if Donny would take action against his biological father for his own benefit.

The result is obvious, Donny really wants to poison Giovanni for his own benefit.

So, did I fail in my father's trial?

Donnie lowered his head in thought.

At this moment, he had no time to care about Zenit's affairs.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that Zenit had left him a letter, telling him to open it when he was confused.

Zenit was his confidant, and he believed that Zenit's actions were for his own good. Otherwise, he would not have risked his life to persuade him to poison his father to take the throne.